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Life's Most Precious Thing

A WHITE-HAIRED

man worth £250,000 told me: "All my wealth has been meaningless because I have not got the one precious thing in life I have always wanted a són, or daughter."

Life without, children was emply "for 60-year-old Colonel Harry Stern, Empty unt two years ago when Gordon Park bicamo his valet and later his "on" and heir to his fortune, And empty Bgain when Park vorilaud without giving

rrison,

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Thirty-two-year-old Park, whom officials were seeking for maintenanOO for his wife and Three children living in Hezam, Northumberland, arte thirty miles south of the Scottish border, left the lutury of the grionel's 12-roomed mansion in Prestbury, Cheshire, on May 13.

UPSET

The sudden

THE CHINA MAIL THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1958.

DON IDDON puts the Mail first in the field once again with this on-the-spot report

of the men and machines poised for one of history's greatest feats of exploration'

'Underwater Satellite' is

all set for the Pole

WILL U.S. ATOM-SUB SKATE GET

WITHIN MISSILE RANGE OF ·

RUSSIA AT THE TOP OF THE WORLD?

POLAR

Atomic Submarine Headquarters, Groton, Connecticut.

DOLAR DAY is imminent. America's newest atomic submarine, the U.S.S. Skate, and the diesel-engined Halfbeak today are ready to penetrate the North Pole, calling under sea and under ice.

The officers and men of these two submarine the newest deterrentare ready. All that is necessary now is the signal from the White House and the Pentagon.

I have been spending some time here at the atom sub, base and the atmosphere is tense. Sailing orders may come any day now and certainly within the next few walk-out upset weeks. The Nautilua, America's first atomic submarine, will not be taking part în the colonel, who had given Park the great adventure of the expedition to the top of the world which Rear-Admiral

and a £700-a-year

H. G. Rickover, the father of the nuclear-powered submarine, calls "one of history's. greatest feats of exploration."

a car. nilównaco.

A fortnight ago Park 'phoned the colonel. They met secretly, Colonel Stern revealed, outside Piol Fields, Manchester. They talked for more than an hour.

"I told him I had forgiven him, and that this house is open if he wants to come back. He can get the chance to rehabill- tàle himself," suid. Colonel Stern,

track Russian aviation and missile activity.

on

The Nautilus is in Honolulu, up a new and vital stage in keep the closest and the men here balleve the naval warfare. Sitate, built by assembly-line methods, is faster and better- than the Poncer equipped under-water vessel.

Recently the Skate shaved of

hours 20

from the Atlantic "If he does-and I hope he crossing record held by the

Nautilus will he will still be my heir

The Halfbeak, con if he shows he is the fellow Iventionally powered by dieant have always thought he 3, hough I have had the codicil elanged.

CONSCIENCE

To me he was a wonderful 'on.' He told me he WAB divorced, and now I realise hla cénselence must have been trubling him.”

to

engines, is not expected Penetrate as deep and as far Into the polar regions as the Skate, but, according to the experts here she will not be far behind.

What is the purpose of the under-water, under-lce trip to

on atomic the North Pole by powered submarine and diesel. engined submarine? I have been asking this question ever since

anower

"I have all the comforts, but money hart really brought me the thing that matters most I came here, happiness, I reminds me of

The the mying that money enables

is umally wealthy people to be miserable vogue "Scientific Information, in comfort

mapping, meteorological data, "I've

Been the children of that sort of thing, and, of course, ordinary workaday

folk-the prestige"

kind of people who enjoy their pinis in a pub, And I've

-those fathers

onvied mothers because

they

and Have

really found happiness that

sons or daughters bring.

The glory

The men of the submarino -

Throughout history the Arcle

As the dispatch has not been situated. Ocean, strategically

and I censored

have washing against 3,000 miles of treated with the utmost courtesy been Russian coastline, has been

here obtaining denied all naval

The info power,

· m 3- Nautilus, which almost reached tion which I demonstrated Shat did not believe. the Pole,

atom-powered underwater craft

wag available ean operate in this vast deser.- ed waste in safety and in some degree of cothtort.

Hostile

Until the Russians develop their own nuclear-powered sub- also operate marines they can

any without

opposition from cele naval forces,

Werk is almost complete on four nuclear-powered marines capable of launching The Navy top amic missies. bras calls these "the under- water satellites" and points out that mout

the of

Soviet heartland could be reached with misalles ot only 1,500-mile range fired from open stretches of water in the ice.

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ATLANTIC OCEAN

Map shows the route taken by Nautilus to the Arctic. The Shere's

route to the Pole, may be the SAME,

THIS IS

the Press, I will not develop this

theme.

Nor can I reveal the route to the North Pole at this time, but it will be as direct“, na "possible, and a glance at the map will show you the ilkely course,"

It will probably be the same as the Nautilus-over the tip of Greenland

What a dramatic achievement it would be if the Nautilus, pro- eceding under the Pacific and the Skale under the Atlantic, should rendezvous at the North Fole.

An expert

Groton is a top-secret base, and security precautions here are similar to

at the those Headquarters of the Strategie Command In Omaha. Nebraska And At

In case of Russian stock the

could Air base here bellevé that they can underwater atomic forte

elt as 25 "No man can fix a pat-recapture from the Russians the strike back quickly térn for his children, but glory the

Soviets won by

launching their Sputniks.

if I had a son or daughter Actually, I understand the pur-

I would not insist that they

should do this or that. ion is more than prestige and

would have spent my life trying to advise them, but never to rule them,”

pose of this nudacious exped-

more

Importan than the

gathering of pelentifle data.

It has huge military signin- cance,. The SUCCESE of this omle submarine expedition-

Arnold Field and everyone here confident

it will be a success will open

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and the Halfbeak, which is con- who is master of the Skate ventionally powered, are going. and will land the North There's been a good deal of Polo expedition, says; The guft about supormen being offcars don't worry and the needed and all that. Actually, men don't worry. Boredom?

even

you have to be physically at Wo have plenty to talk about. and mentally fit, For instance, The Skate le a magnificent ship. I think you'd be all right” She performs dawlessly. This I hastily explained that 1 chip is. tribute to the work- suffered from claustrophobia mship of all who find a hand

In a deserted Wembley in building her." Stadium or Yankee Stadium. This baso owes a lot to Au- and my critics thought I was miral Rickover. I wouldn't be neurotic.

surprised if he decided to go to the Pole himself. Rickover,

ani esan loanigrant had a Lieutenant Hoover

hard time here at Arst, He had and said: "Don't worry. No to fight all the way to get the newspapermen are going on this Navy to agree to la under-ice trip. Not one, Wo will submarine programme. be pretty packed with scientists - and, experts. So there won't be

room for the Press,"

New problems ironically, was born in Russia,

laughed

The Skate will carry, nine officers and a crow of 82. Every atomic submarine has e medical ofcer aboard."

Success

atomic

Now he has 'succeeded and the atom fleet is impressive, far bigger than I realised. Con- sider this list:

Nautilus, Seawolf, Commander Richard Dobbins,

Skate, one of the first doctors to serve Swordfish, Borgo, Sea Dragon, In an atomic submarine, says: Halibut, Sidpjack, Scamp, Scor- "Medical problems are not merely plon, Schlpin, Shark, Snook, an extension of those met in Thresher, Permit, Pollack, Plun- conventional submarines. They ger, Triton, Tullibee, Long Beach, constitute really new and Enterprise · game completed,

THE NEW DETERRENT,' says the Admiral

The nuclear-powered Skate, at Portland, Dorset after making an entirely submerged crossing of the Atlantic

in March this year. -~*

Canaveral rocket-launching alte in Florida,

As I have visited both of these advanced defence,contres my screening was brief.

First 1 called on Lieutenant Cape R. M. Hoover, who had served

unique entity."

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semo in service, some under

He pointed out that danger to ecust.vellon, some authorised. the crew from radiation was The officers here and their negilgible because bf the lead chiefs in Washington are not shielding. However, there have reluctant to share their ships been instances of radiation tafat- and their knowledge with their ing the air, and the culprits have allies, been the big radlum-painted luminious diais and markers which permit oporoting, in the dark. These have been changed.

France is going to be given un atomic engine, for a sub- and perhaps marine, and certainly engines, an entire atomic submarine, are available the British, subject to negotiations.

. I found Carbon monoxide is another and, in some ways, inspiring, this visit rewarding dinger-maro in the atomie The daring of the North Pole

Danger.

under-les expedition and the entire atomic programme are m

powered qubmarlie than in the. diesel-powered submarine, be- cause diesel subs. have fresk vasiness of the outside air, blown through every submarine for three years in the atom- 12 hours, while atom-powered pressive, Admiral powered submarine the Seawolf, subs, used their original quote as says: "The atom submarine and who is an expert. He sald: long as they stay down.

the key weapon, "Let's get one or two things: The air is sometimes fouled by achievement, far straight. Nautilus is not going men smoking, but elaborate fli- to the North Pole, on this ex-tration processes juve now been pedition. The Seawolf, my, old” developed. ship, is not going. The Skate

This astonishing

man Agar, VC

ng

Even

THE hero walked in his garden wanting home in Britain he was known

to talk of his strawberries and his roses, and not wanting to talk of heroism.

then his bravery was unsung,

"the mystery V.C."

because the Admiralty did want it known how 'AgeR

not

This is Captain Augustus Willington Agar, V.C., D.8.0., hero once, twice, three times over-und more,

Agar of the cruiser Dorsetshire one of the 1,000 unsung heroes whose story was revealed dramatically, for the first time, in the House of Commons the other day.

Japanese dive-bombers cank

It was not in the action that the Dorsetshire and her sister Captain Agar won his V.C. It was: "Look after the others. cruiser the, Cornwall in the was in 1910. Indian Ocean in 1942. Agar damaged a lung as his ship went

He was down. For 30 hours he inspired In the

î

Ileutenant then aftermath Of the

managed to sink the Oleg.

There were the days between the wars

me Agar crafted in a sea- ... there was the plane. And #wa typical of him that, although every rib ot- his body was broken, the first thing be gasped to the rescuers

look after the oltiers," But the two others in the seaplane were dend.

"In the Second War, ·ân” the

Tas face

et's

Ceptalo

Arar

Commander

James

Calvert,

more

-

Rickover is the unique

portant than the Spuluk or the missilo in any event it car- ries Its own missile. This is the new deterrent."

ROUND

JP

CAMP

COOKING

BY CIVILIANS

ATEAM of 82 civilius cooks

is moving into the Com bined Codes Força...cam at Gundale, near Caltorick. This to the first time the camp has rved by commercial caterers. They are using Army rutions in the preparation of mols. The cooks will sleep under canvas daring the

bec

three

weeks they are working in the cump: They will food nearly 3,600 omcers and cadets. In the past, Army Catering Corps cooks have been responsible for, messing In the camps. The chồngo hai troen brought about by the run-down In the Anny and the desire of the authorities to avoid a lower- the survivors and there were First -World Wor when

"But I'm afraid he didn't doing, of the, bybioet, standard of only 1,122 of them out of 1,540 "Winston was taking a bash dark days when invasion tombs, the Japanese opened u

British the survivors with machine me vory very much good," said Arthy food which the temporary men as they fought off the at the Bolsheviks." The Bol- threatened, Agar ran

астова He Atiantle to guns.

Captain Agar. "I was soundly transfer of cooks from usta to called Agr

"the old

tho comp might entail,, D sharks, fought off panto, fought sheviks

safety in Canada. He was cap- "I'cuppace was part of beaten." to live...

Scourge of the Baltic."

Cruiser their tactica." said Agar bitterly, He served in a foutlo of Emerald.

There they were, all-thp sur-

MISSILE- PART in his garden, Caplain Agar

vivors in a ring in the middle said: "I'm in pretty good shape coastal motor boats #0-footers.

of the occan with their condi today, a bit deaf though, you'll With one of those motor boats

eomrades grouped Inside the

WASHED UP have to speak-up."..

he sank, the Bolshevik cruiser Oleg.

"Scourge

tain of tho feat

His men

The greatest

Then: "The greatest man in

ring. That was the way. Agar the world.

United Blates Air Forco. A

But nrst "he liad 'đó, talk"öt

"A British babby loaded the old the men to slay to keep he He talked on in the English his baloted strawberries which · Agir dodged through the first shipment of gold into sharks away...

**Funshine of himself “ and...”, Niaga Nobject. washed up on he markets I grow Cambridge munce, the screen of, destroyers Emerald, just one bobby. No one. There was no pante," he said career. You should have won beach in Jersey last month Favourites...get 2s. 6d; alb, arcund the Oleg, then his but me, the bobby, and 'one or There was no bob alum. We another V.C for that day in the has been identined as part of for them wholesale at Covent engine broke down.

An American Bourh guidad mia......... two others knew it was gold, didn't nuk hym'm very proud of my V.Cile, fred from Cape Canaveral,

there was Indian Ocean," I said. Garden.

There was £3,000,000 worth Desperttely be and the crew

pothing like of it." worked on repairs in the dark-

"Some of the men were of course, mid Captain Agar. Florida, in July, 1950, Numbers ness" of heavy scar, Finally,

th the Emerald he dodged blinded from the off myself "But it's not medals that matter stamped on a small metal plaque they got the bent going; again, U-boats on trip after trip with was blind for part of the time, most le mam Write about the ware weak to the Air. Ministry

Öleg, bis prctious loads:

There was a man with the skin men... still think of them to who passed them on to the Lateral own Idea-bo set "kipped off his hard like "Built this garden out of a swung round to the

glove, very, very often." Jungle when I retired,” he said. dropped their torpedo, and the off across the Channel with a "Then when we saw two shine And -

Captain Azar

-An || Letter..., from. Brigadier General as be rated proudly, over the Oleg lesped in flames,

Geet of oil tankers, intending to coming over after all these D.8.0., tumed back Time and again in those crab them against the jetties hours I had a terrible four that strawberries and his route and Altache in London repelved in

One of the great men of Eng Here on the quishirin of the exploits outside the Bolshevist of the Nazi-held ports and so they were, the Japanese coming his memories.

Kronstadt-Agur ran #ot the ports ablaze, But the back to finish us oft. My God, amall Hempshire town of Alton, fort of

how thankful we were when we land. where once Jane Austen lived, his motor boat under the mighty trakers broke down halfway here all peace under the hot guns on shore to wreck havoc be had to turn back knew that the ships were Bri-

On now "to" that dayyodného tishu... We were safe," j mong the smaller warshipe sun overhoudi,

anchored there among Trolaky's Indion Dooan. Agar would not Came the days of peace again Agar pointed to the min and mines. There, he won, too his speak much of 12 “It's the men and the peace of rethement, said:"/it/whs fight overhead DAO,

site, you want to write about,n he... Caplain. Agar stood as so Tiny, tint, day wa.. that guy in the "

tsaldi. "They: "When wonderful." - candidata in the 1945 blection.

da te Ddrakishiro Want down" Sir Winston Churchill ach sander? •, therrimus: Vod "Japanoes: dawn to hinek for bion, a

lush acres.

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